I started this blog in September, 2010. Last September, three years later, my blog experienced a milestone...1,000,000 page hits. Curiously, it has taken only
four months to rack up another half million hits. The counter passed 1,500,000 a couple of days ago. I don't mention this as another milestone, but rather as a comment on the interesting phenomenon of social media.
I'm no expert in social dynamics, but I'm guessing that sometime in the wee hours of who-knows-when, with no balloons, confetti or fireworks, critical mass was achieved. One person sitting in the glow of a computer opened one of my posts, and the magic number occurred. Or maybe there's been a massive influx of spammers. Or a glitch in Blogger's counter. There could be a million explanations.
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All I know for sure is that literally overnight the number of hits increased tenfold on a normal day...and up to twentyfold on a busy day. At first, I though it was a fluke, but as one week led to another, the page views have kept coming. And it has nothing to do with me or my blog; that's why I find it so fascinating.
When I first started blogging, I could picture my posts floating around in cyberspace, alone and unread. It was a bit of an eerie feeling, to be honest. These days it's just as peculiar to picture the eyes of thousands of strangers in faraway places (or, unbeknownst to me, perhaps only a few blocks from my house) looking at the words I type...words I doubted would find an audience at the beginning.
I'll never interact with most of those people. Others will be come my friends. This is yet another fascinating aspect of blogging that keeps me coming back.
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What fascinates you most about blogging, and what keeps you posting or reading...or both?
